ChatGPT Marine Biologist

[Wasabiroot]

Didn't mean to stir up the thread with any blathering I made, lol. Apologies if it derailed things a bit.

 

[AydenLincoln]

Move over Chat GPT! In all honesty this is weird and cool. It’s like talking to a real person. It’s ChatGPT on Snapchat but an AI conservation/friend conversation version. I tried it out and it’s weird and really accurate and personable.

 

[affan]

I heard someone way smarter than me discussing the dangers of AI in general (and specifically of chatGPT).

His suggestion that this technology has the potential to cause "civilizational destruction" was a little disconcerting.

but its depend on how you used it, effects of technology mostly depend on the way people used it

 

[jabberwock]

but its depend on how you used it, effects of technology mostly depend on the way people used it

until the technology becomes self aware and sentient.

 

[ElementReefer]

It arguably already is self-aware. GPT 4 in particular is smarter than most people. We are about to run out of ways to test it.

But I don’t think it’s going to exterminate us.

This is a great forum to have this conversation, because we’ve all watched our fish at some point and wondered what they were possibly thinking. Wondered what it must be like to be them, living in our tanks.

I would argue - and I think science increasingly agrees - that what it’s like to be a fish (or any vertebrate) and what it’s like to be a human aren’t as far apart as we thought. We share the same basic brain structures for movement, memory, sensation, basic emotions like fear and reward, and fish even have a tiny version of a cerebrum, the part that processes what we call intelligence and awareness. Humans probably experience reality much more richly, but the fundamentals are the same.

AI doesn’t share this structure, and it didn’t evolve organically, so theoretically it doesn't want anything. We want to survive because survival is our billion year old evolutionary mandate, the core of what we are. As far as I can tell, the AI we’ve created doesn’t have independent agency at all - only what we prompt it to have.

 

[affan]

It arguably already is self-aware. GPT 4 in particular is smarter than most people. We are about to run out of ways to test it.

But I don’t think it’s going to exterminate us.

This is a great forum to have this conversation, because we’ve all watched our fish at some point and wondered what they were possibly thinking. Wondered what it must be like to be them, living in our tanks.

I would argue - and I think science increasingly agrees - that what it’s like to be a fish (or any vertebrate) and what it’s like to be a human aren’t as far apart as we thought. We share the same basic brain structures for movement, memory, sensation, basic emotions like fear and reward, and fish even have a tiny version of a cerebrum, the part that processes what we call intelligence and awareness. Humans probably experience reality much more richly, but the fundamentals are the same.

AI doesn’t share this structure, and it didn’t evolve organically, so theoretically it doesn't want anything. We want to survive because survival is our billion year old evolutionary mandate, the core of what we are. As far as I can tell, the AI we’ve created doesn’t have independent agency at all - only what we prompt it to have.

Agree, I have even made a few Chrome extensions with the help of chatgpt

 

[affan]

It arguably already is self-aware. GPT 4 in particular is smarter than most people. We are about to run out of ways to test it.

But I don’t think it’s going to exterminate us.

This is a great forum to have this conversation, because we’ve all watched our fish at some point and wondered what they were possibly thinking. Wondered what it must be like to be them, living in our tanks.

I would argue - and I think science increasingly agrees - that what it’s like to be a fish (or any vertebrate) and what it’s like to be a human aren’t as far apart as we thought. We share the same basic brain structures for movement, memory, sensation, basic emotions like fear and reward, and fish even have a tiny version of a cerebrum, the part that processes what we call intelligence and awareness. Humans probably experience reality much more richly, but the fundamentals are the same.

AI doesn’t share this structure, and it didn’t evolve organically, so theoretically it doesn't want anything. We want to survive because survival is our billion year old evolutionary mandate, the core of what we are. As far as I can tell, the AI we’ve created doesn’t have independent agency at all - only what we prompt it to have.

Agree with this, I have created 3 extensiion with the help of chatgpt

 

[GarrettT]

Agreed. It's really quite scary. The speed at which ai will be able to learn will be lifetimes of knowledge in minutes. But we've got this...

But AI intelligence will always be limited to that of its programmer.

His suggestion that this technology has the potential to cause "civilizational destruction" was a little disconcerting.

People are already prone and highly efficient at that.

Ever tried to bypass customer service in lieu of an automated self service? I’m not too concerned.

 

[billyocean]

But AI intelligence will always be limited to that of its programmer.

People are already prone and highly efficient at that.

Ever tried to bypass customer service in lieu of an automated self service? I’m not too concerned.

Is this sarcasm or are you being legit?

 

[GarrettT]

Is this sarcasm or are you being legit?

Both

 

[ElementReefer]

But AI intelligence will always be limited to that of its programmer.

I used to think this was probably true, but it’s apparently false. Consider that GPT 4:

-Scores better than average at a wide range of college and professional tests, versus a human at just one or a few tests

-Does this with only 1 trillion virtual neural connections, whereas a human has 80 trillion connections

-Has the ability to back-propagate, or add new knowledge instantly as if it had always had it (like that scene in TheMatrix when Trinity downloads the skill to fly a helicopter.) Humans can’t do this.

These are the main reasons why Hinton recently left Google.